About

Deborah J. Long is a London-based contemporary artist exploring women, everyday people and the idea of the modern icon.

Working with painting and mixed media, Deborah combines bold colour, distorted figurative forms, graphic imagery and recurring symbols. Influenced by Pop Art and artists including Andy Warhol and Vincent van Gogh, her work explores who we choose to elevate, notice and remember.

Rather than looking only to traditional or religious figures, Deborah is interested in finding the iconic in ordinary people, particularly women.

Her paintings embrace imperfection — visible brush marks, awkward lines and unexpected combinations are part of a visual language that is immediate, playful and human.

Spirituality, symbolism and intuition also influence her practice. Her wider interests include tarot, Reiki, reflexology and shamanic practice, feeding an ongoing fascination with ritual, intuition and the ways we create meaning.

Alongside her art practice, Deborah works at Croydon Council in South London — an everyday counterbalance to her interests in art, symbolism and the unseen.

She takes her art seriously, but tries not to take herself too seriously.